A song in the key of Hallowe'en, a favourite holiday for musician Allison Crowe.
Playing piano since age five and singing, almost as long, Crowe, inspired by Ani
DiFranco and Loreena McKennitt, materialized her own record label in 2003. She's
now brewing her seventh album/CD, "Spiral".

You could say Crowe is very ghoul-oriented.

"Allison Chains" (voice, piano) is linked to this track for eternity, with Dave
"The Damned" Baird (bass), and Laurent "The Butcher" Boucher (percussion). This
version is heard on "This Little Bird", a CD for which Billie "The Wicca" Woods
shot the cover. (Woods' many portraits are fit to be hung in gallowries
worldwide.)

Keeping an eye on all things newt, let us toast those musicians from the
Netherlands to America, 'cross Canada, en France and beyond - who've covered
this song, including: Dhenzy, Victoria Venom, Lucresa, the friend of
"dudelookslikealady2", Natouchka38, Briauna Marijuana, and Eilish (estarhart).

From the brain of Logan Anschell comes just the right interjection - for those
about to enjoy this musical treat. It's the same thing, he whispers, a skeleton
says to a vampire at dinner time:

"Bone appétit!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mMYAnH3MH4

May this raise your spirits ( :

Allison's new album is presently being created. The music collection - 12 songs
- is going to be called "Spiral".

It's already an intensive process, making an album, and, when your musicians are
located across 7000 km. and over three different islands, there's an additional
load of travel and logistics to carry.

Fingers crossed, almost all of the recording will wrap this week. There's still
some orchestration to happen, and Allison will record some vocals and
harmonies... then, it's down to putting together all the pieces!!

While all that is being done, I've had a few minutes post some earlier
performances of Allison.

You may have seen these links on Alley's website - video and audio for "Creep".
This Radiohead song, (by way of the Hollies' songwriting of "The Air That I
Breathe"), was a regular cover in the sets of Allison's bands in the late
'90s/early part of this millenium:

Creep video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKv5u02EkBo

Creep audio -
http://www.allisoncrowe.com/CreepAllisonCroweRadiohead128live.mp3

Thanks to audio archivists Condor and John MacMillan for preserving a rare track
- via this bootleg.

Snow has fallen on Whistler Mountain, not all that far from here, making me feel
not totally crazy posting a pair of traditional Christmas carols:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4syTcamYMwQ - O Holy Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zERIiMe1tNE - Silent Night

These performances, you'll recognize, are from the same "Tidings" sessions as
"Hallelujah", "River" and other well-loved vids of Allison's...

best wishes of this new season, whatever it may be, where e'er you be,

bye for now, Adrian

For those of us living in the northern hemisphere, Summer is nearing its end -
and Autumn/Fall starts to reveal itself.

For me, it's a season of musical revelation.

Allison has started to create her next album. She travels from Canada's Atlantic
coast to the Pacific in about two weeks' time to record her fellow musicians -
Billie Woods, on acoustic guitar; Dave Baird on electric and acoustic bass; and
Laurent Boucher on percussion.

These are the band-members who've toured with Allison in 2009.

There'll be an electric guitarist, joining the group on about three songs. Right
now Alley is working with a brilliant, and incredibly sympathetic, orchestrator.
One of the big questions at the beginning of this process was - how would the
strings and orchestral elements Allison was hearing on several songs be
realized?

We've learned over the years, that it's like alchemy, the joining of art and
science (in the form of technical engineering/production). It's a magic that
calls for invention, serendipity, inspiration.

It's early on, two songs in to what promises to be a 12 song collection - but,
I'm hearing it.

My Dad made buttons for my brothers, sister and myself that said "I am a Beatle"
and I was happily wearing that more than forty years ago, before I'd learned to
ride a bicycle.

At this moment, I feel the same excitement that stirred when George Martin (now
Sir) got together with those four lads from Liverpool.

Much more to come ( :

Welcome, here, everyone, Allard and Fleur - friends from Holland. We met on my
home-island of Salt Spring, Canada as they travelled in this country.

Apparently one of Allison's CDs is still stuck in the player of their rental
van! Which one?!

Seems an appropriate time to note that Maarten of Gouda in the Netherlands has
created a group for friends of Allison's music @
http://www.allisoncrowe.hyves.nl  You need not be Dutch to join - and, if, like
me, you're not - you may learn a few new words ( :

Same thing if you visit with southern folks - Fatimah of Săo Paulo,
Brazil has created a MySpace page @ http://www.myspace.com/allisoncrowebrazil 
Fatimah has also formed the Allison Crowe group page on facebook @
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17142784794

Allison facebook artist page @
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Allison-Crowe/23720081675

All nationalities, languages, all-world, welcome, always ( :

Ad

--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, allard_friedrich <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Adrian, for adding us to the group. Allard & Fleur
>

You're most welcome, Allard & Fleur!

It's a pleasure to have met you on your Canadian sojourn. Here's hoping Allison
and all of us will make it to the Netherlands for a visit in Spring 2010.

Allison is taking a break from the live stage this Summer - as she pares down a
collection of 27 songs to make a new CD/album. Now there is a band, the songs
will reflect that bigger sound.

Myself, I have had computer/email troubles for years, as a result of not having
enough everything in my computer to handle all the files etc. I finally have a
new computer - and some time to transfer and fix all the data+. This is my
Summer project ( :

Happy season to all here!!

peace and cheers, Adrian

Thanks, Adrian, for adding us to the group. Allard & Fleur

Best wishes this Father's Day weekend - to all of us! Fathers, Mothers,
children, kin, of all types ( :

We're now at a break in what's been a rather breathless run that began in
February/March of this year - pretty much when Allison decided to form a band.
And, things have turned out wonderfully, so, time to pause with all the forward
motion, and ready for all that is to come - concerts, albums/recording++

Below is the latest word - if you've not seen it. Now, I am home, and Summer
begins, I'll be catching up with a mountain of mail, and hope we'll be chatting
( :

***

Allison Crowe Band: Triumphant in Europe, Unique in Canada

Allison Crowe and her traveling band – Billie Woods (guitar), Dave Baird (bass)
and Laurent Boucher (percussion) – are back in Canada following a triumphant
tour of continental Europe.

Playing to full-houses and multiple encores in Aachen, Munich, Frankfurt,
Berlin, Prague and Vienna was especially gratifying for the troupe – after a
start in the UK that could have derailed less able and determined musicians.

Instead, an encounter with new anti-terrorist/illegal immigration rules has
helped fuel the vibrant reform movement in the UK. With public and media support
from stern to bow on the island of Great Britain, the news was featured by BBC
Radio, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian/Observer, The Scotsman, The Northern
Times, The Press & Journal, and many more outlets. The Times of London warned:
"Immigration rules threaten to destroy Britain's arts reputation".

Cultural events described as canceled or in jeopardy as a result of the new laws
include: concerts by supreme Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov; African jazz band
Les Amazones de Guinée; the English National Opera's production of Cosě Fan
Tutte to be directed by Abbas Kiarostami, the great Iranian film-maker; and
events involving a range of participants from Argentinian tango-dancers, to
neuroscientists, university lecturers, Chinese artists and touring church
choirs.

On June 3, the UK civil liberties group, Manifesto Club, hosted the first
"Cabaret Without Borders" in London, England. Allison Crowe spoke to attendees
of this packed event via telephone hook-up, minutes before her band's
performance in Frankfurt. The 'Visiting Artists and Academics Petition' ~ found
@ http://www.petitiononline.com/MCvisit/petition.html ~ was launched earlier
this year by the Manifesto Club with the endorsement of dozens of the UK's most
prominent artists and educators, including: sculptor Antony Gormley; director of
the National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne; and the artistic director of the
Royal National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner.

Home in Canada, the bicoastal musician and her transnational band, next devote
the Summer to writing, playing and recording before Fall '09 Canadian tour
dates, Winter 2009 "Tidings" concerts, and, a return to Europe in Spring 2010.

Crowe's success has been built quite differently to a pattern followed for
decades by Canadian rock musicians. Rather than rely on grants or corporate
support, (or multinational record labels that may themselves receive
grants/subsidies), the exciting singer-songwriter who lives on, both, the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts, has connected directly with her audience, building
a passionate international fan base for her music via internet videos and songs
and peerless live performances.

Allison's Crowe's next CD/album will be her seventh release since the 2003
launch of her label, Rubenesque Records Ltd. It will be the first to showcase
her quartet.

It's been a few years since Nick Hornby, in a New York Times op-ed
piece, "Rock of Ages", spoke of "that high-low fork in the road" asking:
"Who has the nerve to pick up where Dickens or John Ford left off?
...who wants to make art that is committed and authentic and
intelligent, but that sets out to include, rather than exclude?"

An answer is Allison Crowe, creator of such recordings as "Disease",
"Skeletons and Spirits" and "Wedding Song" and interpretations of
popular music from Leonard Cohen to Pearl Jam and the Loving Spoonful.

This week the Chicago Tribune newspaper named the "5 best versions of
Cohen's 'Hallelujah' " and counter-culture blog MIX listed the top
"non-shills" in the music business. Allison Crowe is the only artist on
both lists. Being ranked alongside Leonard Cohen, John Cale, Jeff
Buckley and kd lang for her transcendent, single/first-take, recording
of "Hallelujah", and lining up with Ani DiFranco, Janis Ian, Trent
Reznor, Radiohead and others for her integrity, is emblematic of Crowe's
singular success.

She launched her own record label, Rubenesque Records Ltd., in 2003 and
approaches music very differently to the industry standard of recent
decades. The wholly independent vocalist and multi-instrumentalist shows
you don't need to "play the game". You simply need to make great music.
And you need to mean it.

"In a world of copycats and wannabes in the singer-songwriter field,
Crowe is a true original and is playing in a league of her own", writes
Tom Mureika. In this latest concert review penned for Westcoaster.ca,
Mureika, a writer for AllMusicGuide, describes Crowe as an
"astonishingly gifted artist" with "a dynamic stage presence - she is at
once commanding and enrapturing." Saying: "Crowe is easily the most
talented singer-songwriter to burst on the scene in quite some time...
There were even times when her compositions came across like a modern
day Carole King." Mureika concludes: "Her unique stylings, incredible
range of delivery, songwriting chops and knack for interpreting cover
tunes sets her apart from her peers".

AMG/Westcoaster.ca's Mureika is reporting on a sound heard
coast-to-coast in Canada, where Crowe resides on, both, Atlantic and
Pacific shores, and 'round the world live, on the internet and mp3
players everywhere, on Rogers, ATV, and CHUM television, the BBC, CBC
radio and more.

From Canadian college radio station CFBX, where Crowe's newest of six
CDs/albums, "Little Light" was top of general and specialty charts for
weeks running this Spring, (since replaced on the Roots chart by the
latest from Neko Case, 'Middle Cyclone'), to audiences numbering in the
millions worldwide for her videos on YouTube, and song tracks on such
social networking platforms as Jamendo and Last.fm to mainstream outlets
iTunes and Amazon, Crowe's appeal bridges the iconoclastic and the
populist.

UK audiences heard from Allison Crowe when she was a sensation at the
John Lennon Northern Lights Festival in Durness, Scotland (crowned the
"UK's Best New Festival' in early 2008). Crowe's performance in the
Scottish Highlands, on-stage between Carol Ann Duffy, appointed
Britain's Poet Laureate just this month, and Master of The Queen's
Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, is the stuff of legend.

Recently, two prominent tributes to Leonard Cohen have featured her song
contributions. During a triumphal Beatles Week 2008 concert series, BBC
Radio 2 interviewed and recorded Allison Crowe in Liverpool performing
"Hallelujah" for its documentary, "The Fourth, The Fifth, The Minor
Fall", that explores the many facets of this Leonard Cohen creation.
Hosted by Guy Garvey of Elbow, other participants include musicians
Imogen Heap and Kathryn Williams alongside producers John Lissauer and
Andy Wallace.

MOJO magazine's December '08 issue paid tribute to Cohen with a
celebration of his "deep and moving music". Of Allison Crowe's
contribution of "Joan of Arc" to its 'All Star Tribute", (featuring Judy
Collins, Nick Cave, Martha Wainwright and others), a cover-mount CD
titled "Cohen Covered", MOJO says: "Once famously described by the
Vancouver Courier as possessing a style akin to 'Elton John meets Edith
Piaf', the Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Crowe is renowned for her
ability to blend control and melodrama. Certainly she does so on this
spirited cover of Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate classic, a track which
also powerfully showcases her considerable talent as a fine interpreter
of song."

Jeffrey Pitcher, Artistic Director of Theatre Newfoundland Labrador has
worked with Crowe on TNL's "Sexy and Dangerous" production in Corner
Brook for two years. He says: "No matter where she is in this world,
that voice, that conviction, it crosses all borders. She's one of those
rare artists that fits into any culture, any community because she is
who she is – an incredible talent."

"Ever wonder what it would have been like to listen to a gifted
singer/songwriter from Saskatchewan in a small, intimate hall before she
became Joni Mitchell? Don't fret the missed opportunity. There's no need
to turn back the clock. Check out Allison Crowe," says Robert Reid in
The Record (Canada). Longtime WGTE/NPR (USA) host Ross Hocker calls a
performance by Crowe "the most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate
concert in my entire life".

Allison Crowe (voice/piano/guitar) and her band-mates, Billie Woods
(guitar), Dave Baird (bass) and Laurent Boucher (percussion), embark now
on tour - a string of dates that launch in her Atlantic home,
Newfoundland this Saturday, May 9, at Bianca's, in St. John's, NL and
Wednesday, May 13 at the Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook, NL - and
take the quartet to a range of European cultural capitals:

23.05.09 - The LOT, Edinburgh, Scotland
25.05.09 - The Halo, London, England
28.05.09 - Aula Carolina, Aachen, Germany
29.05.09 - Jazzbar Vogler, Munich, Germany
03.06.09 - Jazzlokal Mampf, Frankfurt, Germany
06.06.09 - venue/city tba
09.06.09 - Osterkirche, Berlin, Germany
11.06.09 - Divadlo Dobeska, Prague, Czech Republic
13.06.09 - Tunnel-Vienna-Live, Wien, Austria

For music and more info visit: www.allisoncrowe.com
<http://www.allisoncrowe.com>

That's the word on Allison and the band's activities - should you not
receive it by email list.

Between the crazy weather, computers, and gearing up for a quartet
rather than a solo artist, this year already feels full! Here's to warm
seasons ahead, and playtime for thee and me.

Happy Mother's Day!!

cheers, Adrian



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

It's really been a year so far - harsh Winter in this part of Canada, and,
before we're out of the woods weather-wise, Allison formed a band - and I'm
still a long ways from being up-to-date. Maybe it's just that way.

The quartet - Allison, accompanied by Billie Woods (guitar), Dave Baird (bass)
and Laurent Boucher (percussion) has just performed a series of concerts on
Canada's Pacific Coast. They're wonderful - and it's bringing out a lot of
different songs in Alley's repertoire.

Next, they're off to Newfoundland for a pair of concerts, then, it's the first
European band tour ever for Allison ( :

Also new, should you not have seen this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlB-NfVuaCA - Allison was invited to contribute a
recording of John Lennon's "Imagine" to make a video for the release of a new
book of photos - here's the fuller scoop:

"Give Peace a Chance: John & Yoko's Bed-In for Peace" celebrated by new Allison
Crowe video

“Once upon a time, there were two balloons called Jock and Yono,” begins
John Lennon’s ’airy tale on The Beatles’ 1968 Christmas record.

It was a time when the actions of popular musicians and artists could be aimed
to make us think - not just buy.

"We're going to sell peace the way other people sell soap", Lennon told a young
photo-journalist Gerry Deiter. In the Spring of 1969, Deiter was assigned by
LIFE Magazine to document the “Bed-In for Peace” staged by John Lennon and
Yoko Ono at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel. As performance art it spanned
eight days a week - from May 25 to June 1 '69 - and was designed to bring
attention to social issues of the day and, particularly, the US war in Vietnam.

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Dieter emigrated to Canada during the war in
Vietnam. He was the only photographer present for the entire 8 days of the
Montreal “Bed-In for Peace”. There he captured hundreds of images of John
and Yoko singing, composing, visiting with friends and talking to the media.
Lennon and Ono spoke to some 150 journalists during the press conferences they
held daily from their bed. June 1, 1969 was the culmination - the recording of
“Give Peace A Chance”, now an international peace anthem.

With war fever again poisoning mainstream culture, a few years ago Gerry Deiter
retrieved his archival photos. Partnered with Joan Athey, a long-time CBC
publicist, and based out of Victoria, Canada, their team mounted exhibitions to
renew the message of peace and understanding.

On December 10, 2005, just days after launching an exhibition at the Royal
British Columbia Museum, and marking the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s
assassination, photographer, newsman, and life-long activist Gerry Dieter passed
away following an heart attack.

Dieter’s son Nathaniel inherited the iconic prints, and, keeping her promise
to spread the word, Joan Athey acquired a collection of these rarely-seen
images.

Now... these images come together in the book "Give Peace a Chance: John &
Yoko's Bed-In for Peace". Photography by Gerry Deiter. Compiled by Joan Athey.
Edited by Paul McGrath. Published by John Wiley and Sons.

The book launch happens this Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. in the Collard Room,
Swans Pub, 506 Pandora Ave., Victoria, BC, Canada. International book events are
scheduled for: May 12, Gershwin Hotel at 8 pm time in New York City (generously
sponsored by the Gershwin); and May 26, at Toronto’s Stephen Bulger Gallery.
Photo exhibitions open May 26 in Liverpool, England at “The Beatles Story”
and June 12 at the Bethel Woods Arts Centre, (Woodstock Festival) in New York. 
http://www.peaceworksnow.com

Canadian musician Allison Crowe, one of her generation’s most independent and
acclaimed singer-songwriters, is honoured to do her part in celebrating the book
and the 40th anniversary of the Bed-In. In 2007, Crowe proved a sensation at the
John Lennon Northern Lights Festival - named the UK's best new music festival.
In 2008 she headlined a concert for the John Lennon Memorial Garden in Durness,
Scotland. This week, she’s created a new video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlB-NfVuaCA - uniting dozens of Gerry Deiter’s
images of the 1969 Bed-In with a recording of “Imagine” - captured “Live
at Wood Hall”, in concert in 2005 at the Victoria Conservatory of Music.

Allison Crowe's videos have been enjoyed by over five million people globally.
Her audience online grows by over 200,000 people each month. The bicoastal
singer-songwriter, (whose home territory covers Nanaimo, BC to Corner Brook,
NL), has just completed a concert tour of coastal BC with her new band. The
quartet next perform dates in Newfoundland before an European tour that takes
them to Edinburgh, London, Aachen, Frankfurt, Berlin, Prague, Vienna and more
cities. Details tba.

Imagine peace. May we all live “hopefully ever after”.

I have soooo much catching up to do. This show sounds very cool!!

I've been immersed in the process of Allison forming a band. Never imagined it's
be so intensive, but, it is... From arranging travel, accommodations, scheduling
etc. etc.

Musically, things are sounding great, so, it IS exciting. Just thoroughly
exhausting at the same time.

I hope I'll be able to surface soon, and give a report ( :

hoping Spring is 'round the corner,

cheers, Adrian



--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, saltwatermusicrob <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Group a little quiet lately.  So here's a link to an episode with some airplay
for Allison.  With the Watchmen movie it made sense.
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/SaltWaterMusicMarch13th2009Hour1
>
> Was the Friday after the Helicopter crash in Newfoundland, so the beginning is
downbeat as I talked about that.
>
> Other music is Jenn Grant, Sharona Clarke, Christine Crawford, Ryan Neilson,
Francis Arsenault, Remedy and Leonard Cohen.
>
> For those who didn't hear about the Watchmen/Hallelujah story, here is a blog
entry where I used parts of Adrian's blogs about it.  It makes sense when you
read it.
>
> http://saltwatermusic.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/watchmenallison-crowe/
>

Group a little quiet lately.  So here's a link to an episode with some airplay
for Allison.  With the Watchmen movie it made sense.

http://www.archive.org/details/SaltWaterMusicMarch13th2009Hour1

Was the Friday after the Helicopter crash in Newfoundland, so the beginning is
downbeat as I talked about that.

Other music is Jenn Grant, Sharona Clarke, Christine Crawford, Ryan Neilson,
Francis Arsenault, Remedy and Leonard Cohen.

For those who didn't hear about the Watchmen/Hallelujah story, here is a blog
entry where I used parts of Adrian's blogs about it.  It makes sense when you
read it.

http://saltwatermusic.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/watchmenallison-crowe/

Allison is in Alberta all this week. I'll let her know and she can
take a look when she's back on the rock next week!

I missed the phone in - sorry!

And, I think that's my chance until next Friday night. Maybe Queen's
can extend the pledge drive?! to make up for time lost to the
hackers...

or, will they still accept late pledges?

I hope you had fun, and got through most, if not all of the
alphabet. I'm been under the weather these past few days. Still not
right, but, starting to pick up. Looking forward to Spring!!

'best to all, Ad


--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, "James Powell" <wx732@...>
wrote:
>
> I know what it is, even if I didn't read it during my stint on the
rock.  (went to MI from Sep 99-April 01...what fun!)
>
> James
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: saltwatermusicrob
>   To: allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 3:37 PM
>   Subject: [Allison Crowe] Re: A to Z on Friday
>
>
>   And I'm on the phones myself taking phone pledges from 8-10pm
EST on
>   Friday Night. A long night for me. Last week I had one call in 2
>   hours, my Mom. At least I talked to someone. :)
>
>   If you happen to be in Newfoundland, I'm in the Newfoundland
Herald
>   this week. Did an interview with Toni Marie Wiseman about my
radio
>   show. I haven't seen it myself yet but I answered the questions
so I
>   know what's in it. LOL.
>
>   Allison has probably learned about how big the Herald is in the
>   Newfoundland. It's a weekly magazine that everyone has or reads
parts
>   of. I should try and see if they've covered Allison yet.
>
>   cheers,
>   Rob

I know what it is, even if I didn't read it during my stint on the rock.  (went
to MI from Sep 99-April 01...what fun!)

James
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: saltwatermusicrob
   To: allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com
   Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 3:37 PM
   Subject: [Allison Crowe] Re: A to Z on Friday


   And I'm on the phones myself taking phone pledges from 8-10pm EST on
   Friday Night. A long night for me. Last week I had one call in 2
   hours, my Mom. At least I talked to someone. :)

   If you happen to be in Newfoundland, I'm in the Newfoundland Herald
   this week. Did an interview with Toni Marie Wiseman about my radio
   show. I haven't seen it myself yet but I answered the questions so I
   know what's in it. LOL.

   Allison has probably learned about how big the Herald is in the
   Newfoundland. It's a weekly magazine that everyone has or reads parts
   of. I should try and see if they've covered Allison yet.

   cheers,
   Rob

   --- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, "Adrian" <management@...> wrote:
   >
   > Sounds great!! I'll have to tune in!! and check out the drive, and
   more...
   >
   > Yes, playing 200 artists' songs would keep you on air for a marathon!
   >
   > maybe it be a great, fun, success for you and all at CFRC (
   > http://www.cfrc.ca )!!
   >
   > cheers, Ad
   >




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

And I'm on the phones myself taking phone pledges from 8-10pm EST on
Friday Night.  A long night for me.  Last week I had one call in 2
hours, my Mom.  At least I talked to someone. :)

If you happen to be in Newfoundland, I'm in the Newfoundland Herald
this week.  Did an interview with Toni Marie Wiseman about my radio
show.  I haven't seen it myself yet but I answered the questions so I
know what's in it. LOL.

Allison has probably learned about how big the Herald is in the
Newfoundland.  It's a weekly magazine that everyone has or reads parts
of.  I should try and see if they've covered Allison yet.

cheers,
Rob

--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, "Adrian" <management@...> wrote:
>
> Sounds great!! I'll have to tune in!! and check out the drive, and
more...
>
> Yes, playing 200 artists' songs would keep you on air for a marathon!
>
> maybe it be a great, fun, success for you and all at CFRC (
> http://www.cfrc.ca )!!
>
> cheers, Ad
>

Sounds great!! I'll have to tune in!! and check out the drive, and more...

Yes, playing 200 artists' songs would keep you on air for a marathon!

maybe it be a great, fun, success for you and all at CFRC (
http://www.cfrc.ca )!!

cheers, Ad

Oh ya, I'm just reading the A to Z list of the 200 artists over the
course of 2 hours and playing select ones.  I'd be there all night if
I tried to play a song by each of them. :)

--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, saltwatermusicrob <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> New pictures are great by the way.
>
> Funding drive at CFRC started last Friday, would've mentioned it
> before but some of Queen's systems got hacked so the website was down
> most of last week.  Bad timing huh?
>
> Played a bit of Allison at the end of the last show but I'll play some
> on Friday.  I'm doing an "A to Z" show.  Have a list of every Canadian
> artist I've played on the radio.  Which just hit 200.  Wow, 200?
> Imagine that.
>
> So if anyone has a few bucks visit the website or give the station a
> call between now and Sunday.  Preferably during my show on Friday
> Night since I had no calls last week.  Oh wait, I did have one caller
> who requested some Jeff Healey.  I went to grab the new Healey CD and
> there's a song called "It's Only Money".  :)
>
> Show is Friday from 6-8pm EST.
>
> http://www.cfrc.ca
>

New pictures are great by the way.

Funding drive at CFRC started last Friday, would've mentioned it
before but some of Queen's systems got hacked so the website was down
most of last week.  Bad timing huh?

Played a bit of Allison at the end of the last show but I'll play some
on Friday.  I'm doing an "A to Z" show.  Have a list of every Canadian
artist I've played on the radio.  Which just hit 200.  Wow, 200?
Imagine that.

So if anyone has a few bucks visit the website or give the station a
call between now and Sunday.  Preferably during my show on Friday
Night since I had no calls last week.  Oh wait, I did have one caller
who requested some Jeff Healey.  I went to grab the new Healey CD and
there's a song called "It's Only Money".  :)

Show is Friday from 6-8pm EST.

http://www.cfrc.ca

Aye, and Happy Robbie Burns Day to all!!

Hooray for people picking up on music from your program, Rob! Thank
you! It's wonderful to be able to share a love of music, and for the
internet to enable all this!!

For me, it's been a crazy Winter - as some previous, weather-related,
posts suggest! (or did I dream those?!) Touring via a patchwork of
transportation - with my car stuck for weeks in the snow. Then, home
to cracked/frozen pipes. Over Christmas and New Year's I was boiling
snow to get water for drinking and washing.

Just trying to catch up now. A perpetual state, almost, and one that
begins earlier each year!!

In celebration this weekend, I got around to making a pair of videos
using photos taken by Billie Woods when she toured with Allison across
Europe in '08. There's LOTS more images, and music, of course, so,
more vids are possible.

To kick off, here be - "Me and Bobby McGee" - live:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=471Q7CQGQP0

and "Wedding Song":

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=aYxrBmcm_fI

Sláinte mhaith!!

a bientot, see you soon, bis bald!! 'best, Adrian

Happy New Year, already 10 days into 2009.

No posts since Christmas time?  Better rectify that. :)

I learned that I helped sell one CD for Allison.  Heard from an
American listener she purchased some of her music online.  Emailed her
a link to Allison's website where she could listen to the songs.
Listener said she liked the music she heard.  Does that count as a
late Christmas present? lol.

Back to doing sports soon.  We did a hockey game this afternoon, a
basketball game at 8pm.  Doubleheader?  Yep, going to be passed out on
the couch tomorrow.

cheers,
Rob

The Lego ones?  Or the HO (OO) ones?  Both hobbies are explained in detail on
the web page :).  Suffice to say, I haven't grown up yet :)

The show was quite good, I'd like to see Ally in a full (non Tidings) concert.
Next time, hopefully, I won't be limited to a desparate drive to the ferry
terminal to get on the last boat home :).  (unlike the Salt Spring Spring show)

James

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: jessy
   To: allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com
   Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 5:54 AM
   Subject: Re: [Allison Crowe] Re: Nostalgia complete with chilly hands and rosy
cheeks


   What are all those train rails??!!

   thanks for the Alley pics, I guess the shows were just great!!
   happy tidings, merry christmas and happy new for all of you (I mean Ad, Rob &
James).

   See you in Europe one day!
   xoxo
   Jessica Kuijer

   MSN/Mail: jessika2001@... or wherethelionsweep@...
   WEB: http://wherethelionsweep.com
   & http://ctn-music.com

   From: Adrian
   Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 11:13 AM
   To: allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com
   Subject: [Allison Crowe] Re: Nostalgia complete with chilly hands and rosy
cheeks

   Cool, thanks for the pics, James - it helps me to know that show was
   not only in my dreams!

   And, thanks for the cute family shots ( :

   Merry Christmas!!

   And, to all, celebrating whatever wherever, may you be with family
   and loved ones, and safe and warm.

   Myself, I've come home to water pipes that cracked from freezing. I
   boil snow now for water, and I'm just happy all the Tidings shows
   happened, and people came together.

   Indeed, in these parts - take it easy!!

   Happy holidays = P + L = H!!

   cheers, Ad

   p.s. and, yes, James who is in hospital is a high school friend of
   Alley's - whose band was on tour, and with the bad road conditions
   ended up in a bad motor vehicle accident; may he recover soon!!

   --- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, "James Powell" <wx732@...>
   wrote:
   >
   > I put some (3) photos taken at the Tidings show here in Victoria
   up on my web page. (wow, only took me a week to do it!). I've also
   gotten a nice winter photo of the son, dog & horse up. It's still
   snowing out here on the west coast of the west coast, a lovely
   couple of inches have fallen with temps hovering just at the 0 mark.
   >
   > http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/Allison%20Crowe/ACVic08.html
   >
   > http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/DSP/Dec08/dec08.html
   >
   > I'm lucky, as this year is the year of family visiting us, not the
   other way around. It's a bear traveling at the holiday time, not
   something that I recommend to be in a rush to do. Just take your
   time, I've scraped enough off the roads to not enjoy it.
   >
   > P+L=H
   > (Peace + Love = Happiness)
   >
   > James Powell
   >
   > (No, I'm not the James ref'd in the Message from Ally...)
   >
   >
   >
   > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
   >

   [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

What are all those train rails??!!


thanks for the Alley pics, I guess the shows were just great!!
happy tidings, merry christmas and happy new for all of you (I mean Ad, Rob &
James).

See you in Europe one day!
xoxo
Jessica Kuijer

MSN/Mail: jessika2001@... or wherethelionsweep@...
WEB: http://wherethelionsweep.com
& http://ctn-music.com


From: Adrian
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 11:13 AM
To: allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Allison Crowe] Re: Nostalgia complete with chilly hands and rosy
cheeks


Cool, thanks for the pics, James - it helps me to know that show was
not only in my dreams!

And, thanks for the cute family shots ( :

Merry Christmas!!

And, to all, celebrating whatever wherever, may you be with family
and loved ones, and safe and warm.

Myself, I've come home to water pipes that cracked from freezing. I
boil snow now for water, and I'm just happy all the Tidings shows
happened, and people came together.

Indeed, in these parts - take it easy!!

Happy holidays = P + L = H!!

cheers, Ad

p.s. and, yes, James who is in hospital is a high school friend of
Alley's - whose band was on tour, and with the bad road conditions
ended up in a bad motor vehicle accident; may he recover soon!!

--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, "James Powell" <wx732@...>
wrote:
>
> I put some (3) photos taken at the Tidings show here in Victoria
up on my web page. (wow, only took me a week to do it!). I've also
gotten a nice winter photo of the son, dog & horse up. It's still
snowing out here on the west coast of the west coast, a lovely
couple of inches have fallen with temps hovering just at the 0 mark.
>
> http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/Allison%20Crowe/ACVic08.html
>
> http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/DSP/Dec08/dec08.html
>
> I'm lucky, as this year is the year of family visiting us, not the
other way around. It's a bear traveling at the holiday time, not
something that I recommend to be in a rush to do. Just take your
time, I've scraped enough off the roads to not enjoy it.
>
> P+L=H
> (Peace + Love = Happiness)
>
> James Powell
>
> (No, I'm not the James ref'd in the Message from Ally...)
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Cool, thanks for the pics, James - it helps me to know that show was
not only in my dreams!

And, thanks for the cute family shots ( :

Merry Christmas!!

And, to all, celebrating whatever wherever, may you be with family
and loved ones, and safe and warm.

Myself, I've come home to water pipes that cracked from freezing. I
boil snow now for water, and I'm just happy all the Tidings shows
happened, and people came together.

Indeed, in these parts - take it easy!!

Happy holidays = P + L = H!!

cheers, Ad

p.s. and, yes, James who is in hospital is a high school friend of
Alley's - whose band was on tour, and with the bad road conditions
ended up in a bad motor vehicle accident; may he recover soon!!


--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, "James Powell" <wx732@...>
wrote:
>
>  I put some (3) photos taken at the Tidings show here in Victoria
up on my web page.  (wow, only took me a week to do it!).  I've also
gotten a nice winter photo of the son, dog & horse up.  It's still
snowing out here on the west coast of the west coast, a lovely
couple of inches have fallen with temps hovering just at the 0 mark.
>
> http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/Allison%20Crowe/ACVic08.html
>
> http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/DSP/Dec08/dec08.html
>
> I'm lucky, as this year is the year of family visiting us, not the
other way around.  It's a bear traveling at the holiday time, not
something that I recommend to be in a rush to do.  Just take your
time, I've scraped enough off the roads to not enjoy it.
>
> P+L=H
> (Peace + Love = Happiness)
>
> James Powell
>
> (No, I'm not the James ref'd in the Message from Ally...)
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

I put some (3) photos taken at the Tidings show here in Victoria up on my web
page.  (wow, only took me a week to do it!).  I've also gotten a nice winter
photo of the son, dog & horse up.  It's still snowing out here on the west coast
of the west coast, a lovely couple of inches have fallen with temps hovering
just at the 0 mark.

http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/Allison%20Crowe/ACVic08.html

http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/DSP/Dec08/dec08.html

I'm lucky, as this year is the year of family visiting us, not the other way
around.  It's a bear traveling at the holiday time, not something that I
recommend to be in a rush to do.  Just take your time, I've scraped enough off
the roads to not enjoy it.

P+L=H
(Peace + Love = Happiness)

James Powell

(No, I'm not the James ref'd in the Message from Ally...)



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Great message from Alley, read it this afternoon.  While strangely
enough I was working on a Christmas episode of the podcast.  Us
Scorpios think alike. Plus we're people who have our first Christmas
when we're a month old. ha ha.

Some new content in the podcast, but most of it I was lazy.  Grabbed
stuff right from the radio show the past few weeks.  LOL.

So it's me playing Hallelujah, Silent Night and In the Bleak Midwinter
at the end of the podcast.

Also include two songs from Kenny Butler who's from St. John's,
'Lights of December' and 'Breathe the Air'. And two Great Big Sea
songs.  Live version of the 'Mummer's Song' and studio version of
'Come and I Will Sing You'.

I'm doing the radio show as usual on Boxing Day, 6-8pm EST www.cfrc.ca

If anyone has any specific requests for Allison songs pass them along
and I'll play them on the radio on Friday Night.

http://saltwatermusic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=415928

Radio clips include me talking about certain dates, commercial breaks
and CFRC.  But I thought I'd leave all that in.

Enjoy and hope everyone has a Merry Christmas. :-)

cheers,
Rob

--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, "Adrian" <management@...> wrote:
>
> I took a walk today in the snow-covered, perfectly-icicled and
> delicately-lit, neighbourhood where I have spent most of, and indeed
> the very first, Christmases of my life. I have officially traveled
> back in time.
>
> The winter walks are best in the evening when the sky is a purplish
> blue and everything is completely silent except for the music with a
> hop to dancing in my ears. This is life, slowed down.
>
> If nothing else, (for all you bah-hum-buggers out there), the end of
> the year is a time when, hopefully, you can find a minute for solace
> and reflection. If you're snowed in, you may have no choice.
> (Hopefully, too, you enjoy the company of whomever you're snowed in
> with… otherwise, it's "Shining" time.)
>
> The rest of the year life seems to carry on in a hectic and harried
> pace, and it's painfully easy to lose yourself to it. The weather,
> the delays, the nasty roads, the barricades and the seemingly
> unmanageable stress seem to me right now like Mother Nature having a
> laugh. "See folks? You can do a lot, sure. You have your planes your
> trains and your automobiles, but I have control of the weather. Slow
> the eff down."
>
> (Some of the roads out here are dangerous, btw, I agree with nature,
> slow the eff down and be careful on 'em. Your family and/or friends
> love you even though they may eat your favorite chocolate out of the
> box.)
>
> I've been the designated tree-decorator in my family's house since I
> was about five. I still am. Seriously. When I'm not here, it doesn't
> happen. She's pretty this year, and after some carefully plotted out
> lighting, (after various unsuccessful attempts at sticking lights up
> his butt), Santa sits gracefully on top of the tree.
>
> It was going to be a star. I thought, you know, the '80s are back
> this year, might as well use one of these old-school stars. Knowing
> full well that the lights on said star would no longer work, I
> decided to head the problem off at the pass. All new lights,
> arranged and shaded in such a way that my five-year-old self would
> be proud. Then I plugged it in. Then it blew up.
>
> (...well, it was more of an instantaneous burning out type short of
> all of the lights. For a moment though, I am pretty sure it was
> super impressive. Enter Santa.)
>
> Santa's sitting there right now, atop the tree, light in hand as a
> lantern to help him navigate through the snowy nights and give all
> the presents and horde all the cookies. We forgive him his hoover-
> like cookie-love, the ol' lug.
>
> There are knit stockings, decorations, too much food, too much
> drink, music, stories shared (even about the stress of getting to
> and from the GD malls… commiseration is underrated sometimes!), old
> friends seen and hugged, and those lost remembered.
>
> My grandpa loved Spongebob. My grandad loved the ginger chocolates.
> My grandma was into astrology. My uncle introduced me to "Dorf on
> Golf".
>
> This Christmas I get to see one nephew get super-excited about
> Christmas, and my other nephew have his first Christmas EVER!!
>
> This winter, I get to see friends on both Canadian coasts (weather-
> permitting) and embark on new adventures and look back at old ones
> and smile. I got the chance to sing and play and meet new friends
> and hear their stories and share some of mine. Chances are I will
> make new friends in airports whenever I experience weather-delays.
> I'll have to laugh when they lose my luggage.
>
> There is nothing more beautiful than seeing humans come together in
> times of stress and throwing up their hands and saying, you know
> what? Life IS too short. Let's enjoy what we have while we have
> it 'cause in a second it can change, whether for good or bad. Let's
> celebrate the positive and negative from this year, and of the years
> past, and the years to come. Everything is ever moving, always
> changing. Have a look at what goes on around you, it's life, and
> it's what we're here to live.
>
> Peace, Merry Christmas and happy winter, everybody.
>
> Alley :)
>
>
> Please send happy thoughts and wishes to my friend James who is
> still in hospital healing, and whom we all love very much, and to
> his lovely wife Kim.
>

I took a walk today in the snow-covered, perfectly-icicled and
delicately-lit, neighbourhood where I have spent most of, and indeed
the very first, Christmases of my life. I have officially traveled
back in time.

The winter walks are best in the evening when the sky is a purplish
blue and everything is completely silent except for the music with a
hop to dancing in my ears. This is life, slowed down.

If nothing else, (for all you bah-hum-buggers out there), the end of
the year is a time when, hopefully, you can find a minute for solace
and reflection. If you're snowed in, you may have no choice.
(Hopefully, too, you enjoy the company of whomever you're snowed in
with… otherwise, it's "Shining" time.)

The rest of the year life seems to carry on in a hectic and harried
pace, and it's painfully easy to lose yourself to it. The weather,
the delays, the nasty roads, the barricades and the seemingly
unmanageable stress seem to me right now like Mother Nature having a
laugh. "See folks? You can do a lot, sure. You have your planes your
trains and your automobiles, but I have control of the weather. Slow
the eff down."

(Some of the roads out here are dangerous, btw, I agree with nature,
slow the eff down and be careful on 'em. Your family and/or friends
love you even though they may eat your favorite chocolate out of the
box.)

I've been the designated tree-decorator in my family's house since I
was about five. I still am. Seriously. When I'm not here, it doesn't
happen. She's pretty this year, and after some carefully plotted out
lighting, (after various unsuccessful attempts at sticking lights up
his butt), Santa sits gracefully on top of the tree.

It was going to be a star. I thought, you know, the '80s are back
this year, might as well use one of these old-school stars. Knowing
full well that the lights on said star would no longer work, I
decided to head the problem off at the pass. All new lights,
arranged and shaded in such a way that my five-year-old self would
be proud. Then I plugged it in. Then it blew up.

(...well, it was more of an instantaneous burning out type short of
all of the lights. For a moment though, I am pretty sure it was
super impressive. Enter Santa.)

Santa's sitting there right now, atop the tree, light in hand as a
lantern to help him navigate through the snowy nights and give all
the presents and horde all the cookies. We forgive him his hoover-
like cookie-love, the ol' lug.

There are knit stockings, decorations, too much food, too much
drink, music, stories shared (even about the stress of getting to
and from the GD malls… commiseration is underrated sometimes!), old
friends seen and hugged, and those lost remembered.

My grandpa loved Spongebob. My grandad loved the ginger chocolates.
My grandma was into astrology. My uncle introduced me to "Dorf on
Golf".

This Christmas I get to see one nephew get super-excited about
Christmas, and my other nephew have his first Christmas EVER!!

This winter, I get to see friends on both Canadian coasts (weather-
permitting) and embark on new adventures and look back at old ones
and smile. I got the chance to sing and play and meet new friends
and hear their stories and share some of mine. Chances are I will
make new friends in airports whenever I experience weather-delays.
I'll have to laugh when they lose my luggage.

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing humans come together in
times of stress and throwing up their hands and saying, you know
what? Life IS too short. Let's enjoy what we have while we have
it 'cause in a second it can change, whether for good or bad. Let's
celebrate the positive and negative from this year, and of the years
past, and the years to come. Everything is ever moving, always
changing. Have a look at what goes on around you, it's life, and
it's what we're here to live.

Peace, Merry Christmas and happy winter, everybody.

Alley :)


Please send happy thoughts and wishes to my friend James who is
still in hospital healing, and whom we all love very much, and to
his lovely wife Kim.

Thanks, Rob, for those wishes. It's been crazy. The weather is
making the simplest things sooooo complicated!

Boxing Day - if I can be home from the mainland, I'll be tuned in to
your show ( :

And thanks for making the link to Jewel's auction manageable!

Yay James!! Thanks for making it to the concert under such
circumstances. I wasn't able to get there. Allison and Billie
borrowed a vehicle, as my car is stranded "up island". And they
landed a two-seater, so, I stayed here, doing my best to assist from
afar.

I'll hopefully find my way out to hook up with them on Friday - and
will let them know the buzz that you're the bumblebee ( :

Hope you had fun, and get some rest!!

As for the songs - since I was not there to hear it, I'm guessing,
but, it sounds pretty clear that you're asking about the new song,
that, yup, Alley has yet to name. It's either going to be Double
Edged Sword(s), Opaque or Paris. It's not yet recorded, but, we'll
surely post it when it is!

Silence - you can hear @ http://www.allisoncrowe.com/07BLTSilence.mp3

There's some other new songs - and, Allison may have performed Going
Home Tonight (piano), Dearly (guitar) or...

Allison now has more than two albums of songs ready for recording -
but she wants to create a combo, likely with Billie Woods on guitar,
and Dave Baird, her long-time bassist, coming back. If we can
coordinate schedules, this'll come together over the next few months
of Winter!

Safe driving, happy holidays - and wishing, you and all of us here,
a very, merry, Christmas ( :

ho, ho, ho and mistletoe, Ad

> I've been through six weeks of phone and internet not working, and,
> now, snow preventing me from reaching home-base even - so, here's
> some news I wanted to get out much earlier, but, there's still time -
> the auction doesn't end for another 48 hours!

Well, I managed to make it ~52 km to see Allison last night.  I didn't stay
around, because I had another 52 km to travel home, and I have to leave for
work at 0 dark thirty...this after dropping my sister off at the Victoria
airport at 0530 in the morning...it made for a LONG day!

Allison sang 2 new songs, I'd think that one of them is Silence, and the
other one is a song she's looking for a name for.

what chance are they going to be posted on the web page?

I think that either "Double Edged Soard" or "Opaque" (ya, my speling sucks)
for titles...both are words in the song, and would work.

James Powell.  (Wearing the bumble bee shirt)

Glad Adrian you got on for a bit, hope the snow eased up to let you
get to the home base. :)

TinyURL link for the auction too for those here.

http://tinyurl.com/5szokw

I'm doing my radio show live on Boxing Day 6-8pm, be playing lots of
Tidings on the show.  So readers here are tired after shopping you can
tune in on the 26th.  www.cfrc.ca

Hope everyone has a safe holiday season.

--- In allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com, "Adrian" <management@...> wrote:
>
> I've been through six weeks of phone and internet not working, and,
> now, snow preventing me from reaching home-base even - so, here's
> some news I wanted to get out much earlier, but, there's still time -
>  the auction doesn't end for another 48 hours!:
>
>
> Allison Crowe Joins Jewel's Lyrics for Life Auction to Aid Project
> Clean Water Charity
>
> "It's too early to be sure, but I'll go out on a limb to say Allison
> Crowe will go down in history as the brightest northern star in
> music," says Toronto music reviewer Lorette Luzajic following a
> recent concert in that Canadian city.
>
> Crowe, already internationally known as a supreme singer, songwriter
> and live performer, is now back in her homeland, dashing through the
> snow to Tidings concerts - annual shows to help raise awareness and
> funds for a wide range of community causes.
>
> It's with pleasure she's invited to contribute to the "Lyrics for
> Life" auction organized and promoted by multi-platinum singer-
> songwriter Jewel and her team. The auction of handwritten lyrics
> from Jewel and friends is to aid Jewel's Project Clean Water Charity.
>
> Jewel explains in her blog ( @ http://www.jeweljk.com ):
>
> "My brother and I started a non profit organization several years
> ago called Project Clean Water. I had sick kidneys while I was
> homeless, and it opened my eyes to the global water crisis. This
> year, we've decided to hold a Lyric Auction to raise money for wells
> in impoverished countries. To date we've helped over 30 communities
> in 13 countries on 5 continents. (For more information, click on the
> Project Clean Water tab on the left) We hope to make this year our
> most beneficial yet. Please visit www.jeweljkauction.com  to bid on
> handwritten and autographed lyrics from some of my artist/song
> writer friends. We've gotten submissions from people all over the
> musical map! Katy Perry sent us I Kissed A Girl written on a box of
> Obama O's cereal. Marv Green sent in Amazed on a HUGE poster board.
> Gretchen Wilson gave us Redneck Woman in a gorgeous frame. Kevin
> Cronin from REO Speedwagon gave us Keep On Lovin You. I even
> sketched and wrote out the lyrics to some of my favorite songs.
> There are country songs, pop, rock, even scores from movies, so
> please check it out."
>
> Allison Crowe has contributed lyrics to "Silence" - a song that's
> proved especially popular on her European tours in 2008, and, is now
> being heard in North American concert venues. There's a direct link
> to this item @
>
> http://www.jeweljkauction.com/cgi-bin/auction.cgi?
> action=BuyerViewProductDetail&ProductID=1000000000327407
>
> You can view and/or bid on this page, or via the main link to
> Jewel's auction. As well, here's some more info on Project Clean
> Water - founded in 1997. It is a non-profit charity foundation that
> is working to improve the quality of life for millions of people by
> helping to provide clean water on a global scale.
>
> Project Clean Water targets villages around the world with clean
> water problems, and finds sustainable solutions to provide them with
> safe drinking water. Our aim is to work with communities and
> governments to protect clean water supplies while restoring
> contaminated sources. To learn more, visit Project Clean Water @
> http://www.jeweljk.com/?content=project_clean_water
>
> Thank you! Best wishes of the Season!!
>

I've been through six weeks of phone and internet not working, and,
now, snow preventing me from reaching home-base even - so, here's
some news I wanted to get out much earlier, but, there's still time -
  the auction doesn't end for another 48 hours!:


Allison Crowe Joins Jewel's Lyrics for Life Auction to Aid Project
Clean Water Charity

"It's too early to be sure, but I'll go out on a limb to say Allison
Crowe will go down in history as the brightest northern star in
music," says Toronto music reviewer Lorette Luzajic following a
recent concert in that Canadian city.

Crowe, already internationally known as a supreme singer, songwriter
and live performer, is now back in her homeland, dashing through the
snow to Tidings concerts - annual shows to help raise awareness and
funds for a wide range of community causes.

It's with pleasure she's invited to contribute to the "Lyrics for
Life" auction organized and promoted by multi-platinum singer-
songwriter Jewel and her team. The auction of handwritten lyrics
from Jewel and friends is to aid Jewel's Project Clean Water Charity.

Jewel explains in her blog ( @ http://www.jeweljk.com ):

"My brother and I started a non profit organization several years
ago called Project Clean Water. I had sick kidneys while I was
homeless, and it opened my eyes to the global water crisis. This
year, we've decided to hold a Lyric Auction to raise money for wells
in impoverished countries. To date we've helped over 30 communities
in 13 countries on 5 continents. (For more information, click on the
Project Clean Water tab on the left) We hope to make this year our
most beneficial yet. Please visit www.jeweljkauction.com  to bid on
handwritten and autographed lyrics from some of my artist/song
writer friends. We've gotten submissions from people all over the
musical map! Katy Perry sent us I Kissed A Girl written on a box of
Obama O's cereal. Marv Green sent in Amazed on a HUGE poster board.
Gretchen Wilson gave us Redneck Woman in a gorgeous frame. Kevin
Cronin from REO Speedwagon gave us Keep On Lovin You. I even
sketched and wrote out the lyrics to some of my favorite songs.
There are country songs, pop, rock, even scores from movies, so
please check it out."

Allison Crowe has contributed lyrics to "Silence" - a song that's
proved especially popular on her European tours in 2008, and, is now
being heard in North American concert venues. There's a direct link
to this item @

http://www.jeweljkauction.com/cgi-bin/auction.cgi?
action=BuyerViewProductDetail&ProductID=1000000000327407

You can view and/or bid on this page, or via the main link to
Jewel's auction. As well, here's some more info on Project Clean
Water - founded in 1997. It is a non-profit charity foundation that
is working to improve the quality of life for millions of people by
helping to provide clean water on a global scale.

Project Clean Water targets villages around the world with clean
water problems, and finds sustainable solutions to provide them with
safe drinking water. Our aim is to work with communities and
governments to protect clean water supplies while restoring
contaminated sources. To learn more, visit Project Clean Water @
http://www.jeweljk.com/?content=project_clean_water

Thank you! Best wishes of the Season!!

Played some of Allison's Tidings CD tonight.  Mentioned the upcoming
concerts, looks like I'll be stuck in Kingston for both shows.  Long
story. :)

But I did play part of the BBC Documentary on Hallelujah, so for those
who want to hear it you can listen to it.

http://www.archive.org/details/SaltWaterMusicNov21st2008Hour2

Few minutes into it is when I start playing Allison's stuff.

Rob